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Principal Persons Mentioned Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Poet, statesman, and essayist for the Spectator, Tatler and Guardian. An early supporter of AP, but later estranged over the Iliad translation. Allen, Ralph (1694-1764) Postmaster, philanthropist, and friend of AP from 1736; the model for Fielding's Squire Allworthy in Tom Jones. Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne, 1709-14; author of History o!John Bull (1712), member of the Scriblerus Club; contributor to Three Hours after Marriage (1717); and close friend of AP (see Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 1734). Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732) Bishop of Rochester, Jacobite sympathiser, and friend of AP. Bathurst, Allen, Earl Bathurst (1684-1775) Tory peer (1712), close friend of AP, and addressee of the third Moral Essay (Epistle to Bathurst). Bentley, Richard (1662-1742) Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, distinguished classical scholar, but for AP arch representative of verbal critics; as in The Dunciad and Sober Advice from Horace. Bethel, Hugh (died 1748) MP for Pontefract, AP's long-time friend; see the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Blount, Martha (1690-1762) Younger Blount sister, AP's main female friend from youth and his principal legatee. Blount, Teresa Maria (1688-1759) Elder sister of Martha and early friend of AP; they became estranged after 1721. Bolingbroke, Henry StJohn, Viscount (1678-1751) Statesman, Jacobite Tory, philosopher, lifelong friend and mentor of AP. 186 Principal Persons Mentioned 187 Boyle, John, Earl of Orrery (1707-62) Friend and correspondent of both Swift and AP after 1730. Boyle, Richard, third Earl of Burlington (1695--1753) Patron, statesman, close friend of AP after 1715; residences at Burlington House (London) and Chiswick. Broome, William (1689-1745) AP's assistant translator on the Iliad and Odyssey projects. Brydges, James, Duke of Chandos (1673-1744) Patron of Handel, and friend of Gay and AP. Burlington, Lord See Boyle, Richard. Burnet, Thomas (1694-1753) Youngest son of Bishop Burnet, member of Addison's circle, author of several attacks on AP. Caryll, John (1667-1736) Squire of West Grinstead, Sussex, early correspondent with AP (from 1710). Chandos, Duke of See Brydges. Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) Actor, dramatist, Poet Laureate (1730-57), enemy of AP's from 1717, hero of The New Dunciad, 1742. Cleland, William (1674-1741) Scottish soldier, government official, friend of AP. Cobham, Viscount See Temple. Combury, Lord See Hyde. Craggs, James the younger (1686-1721) Secretary of State, involved (with his father) in the South Sea Company scandal, and friend of AP. Cromwell, Henry (1659-1728) Elderly minor poet, London friend and correspondent of AP, 1708--12. 188 A Pope Chronology Curll, Edmund (1675--1747) Infamous publisher of piracies and pornography, and AP's constant adversary, 1714--41. Dennis, John (1657-1734) Dramatist, critic, AP's first and most persistently abusive opponent. Dodsley, Robert (1703-64) Poet, playwright, and one of AP's publishers after 1735. Dormer, James (1679-1741) Military hero, general, member of the Kit-Cat Club, acquaintance of AP, who frequently visited his house at Rousham. Douglas, Charles, Duke of Queensberry (1698-1778) Privy Councillor to George I, and, with his Duchess, Gay's patron in the poet's latter years. Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730) Minor poet, scholar; assisted AP with Homer translations. Fermor, Arabella (1690?-1738) Daughter of a prominent Catholic family from Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, celebrated beauty, model for Belinda in The Rape of the Lock. Fortescue, William (1687-1749) Barrister, Whig MP, Baron of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, and AP's close friend and legal adviser. Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-51) Disobedient son of George II and father of George III; he was friendly to AP in the 1730s. Gay, John (1685--1732) Poet, playwright (The Beggar's Opera), charter member of the Scriblerus Club, close friend of AP. Gilliver, Lawton (died 1748) Trusted publisher of all AP's major poems 1729-37, including the epistles to Bathurst, Cobham, Burlington, Martha Blount and Arbuthnot, and the Essay on Man. Harley, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741) Son of Robert Harley, bibliophile and collector, friend of AP and Swift. Principal Persons Mentioned 189 Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724) Chief Tory minister in 1714, statesman, bibliophile, friend of AP. Harte, Walter (1709-74) Minor poet, miscellaneous writer, friend and admirer of AP. Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of lckworth (1696-1743) MP, Walpole-supporter, enemy of AP, subject of 'Sporus' portrait in Epistle to Arbuthnot. Hill, Aaron (1685-1750) Minor poet and dramatist, early antagonist then friendly correspondent of AP after 1728. Hooke, Nathaniel (died 1763) Historian and long-time Catholic friend of AP. Howard, Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (1681-1767) Mistress of George II and AP's neighbour at her Marble Hill house, whose gardens he designed. Hume, Hugh, Earl of Marchmont (1708-94) Member of the Whig opposition to Walpole, the young 'patriots'; friend to AP after 1739. Hyde, Henry, Viscount Combury (1710-53) MP for Oxford and AP's good friend after 1735. Jervas, Charles (1675-1739) Portraitist, fashionable painter, close friend and tutor of AP. Kent, William (1684?-1748) Painter, designer, architect, friend of AP. Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1646-1723) Portrait-painter, near neighbour at Twickenham of AP, who wrote his epitaph. Lintot, Bernard (1675-1736) Eminent publisher and bookseller, whose press issued many of AP's works between 1712 and 1736; his son, Henry, carried on the business after 1736. 190 A Pope Chronology Lyttelton, George (1709-73) Lord Cobham's nephew and member of the anti-Walpolian faction in Parliament in the late 1730s. Mallet, David (1705?-65) Minor poet and dramatist of Scottish birth, AP' s correspondent and friend. Marchmont, Lord See Hume. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) AP's close friend from 1715 until the early 1720s, thereafter his bitter enemy; in 1718, introduced inoculation for smallpox into England. Mordaunt, Charles, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth (1658- 1735) Soldier, gardening-enthusiast, close friend of AP; residences at Bevis Mount and London. Motte, Benjamin (died 1738) Bookseller and publisher of Gulliver's Travels and the AP-Swift Miscellanies. Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield (1705-93) MP, later Solicitor General and Attorney-General, and Lord Chief Justice; AP's friend after 1735 and sometimes legal adviser. Orrery, Lord See Boyle, John. Oxford, Lord See Harley, Robert, or Harley, Edward. Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718) Irish-born poet, contributor to the Spectator and Guardian, and member of the Scriblerus Club; AP edited his posthumous poems. Peterborough, Lord See Mordaunt. Philips, Ambrose (1675?-1749) Minor poet and dramatist, AP's rival pastoralist. Pope, Alexander (1646-1717) London merchant, AP's father. Pope, Edith (1642-1733), nee Turner, AP's mother. Pope, Magdalen (1679?-1749) AP's half-sister, married Charles Rackett of Hammersmith, c. 1694. Principal Persons Mentioned 191 Queensberry, Duke of See Douglas. ~ckett, Charles (died 1728?), of Hammersmith, husband of Magdalen Pope, AP's half-sister. Richardson, Jonathan (the elder) (1665-1745) Painter, author of many sketched portraits of AP after 1733. Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) Dramatist, first editor of Shakespeare, Poet Laureate, early friend of AP. Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648--1721) Courtier, statesman, poet, Jacobite sympathiser and friend of AP, who edited his poetical works. Spence, Joseph (1699-1768) Friend of AP, collector of anecdotes, author of an Essay on Mr Pope's Odyssey, Professor of Poetry (1728) and later Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) Essayist, politician and dramatist, and sometimes acquaintance of AP; originated The Taller, The Spectator and The Guardian. Suffolk, Lady See Howard. Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Satirist, poet, author of Gulliver's Travels, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, AP's lifelong friend, correspondent, and fellow Scriblerian. Temple, Sir Richard, Viscount Cobham (1675-1749) Soldier and statesman, friend of AP; residence at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Theobald, Lewis (1688--1744) Dramatist, scholar, AP's rival editor of Shakespeare, hero of The Dunciad, 1728. Tickell, Thomas (1686-1740) Poet, essayist, friend of Addison, rival translator to AP of Homer. Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736) Eminent bookseller and publisher; his nephew, Jacob Tonson, Jr, carried on the business. 192 A Pope Chronology Trumbull, Sir William (1639-1716) Former Secretary of State to William III (retired 1698), near neighbour in Berkshire and elderly friend of AP. Wales, Prince of See Frederick. Walpole, Sir Robert, Earl of Orford (167Cr1745) Politician and Prime Minister (1721-42), acquaintance of AP and (later) frequent object of AP' s attacks on Whig government. Walsh, William (166~1708) Poet, critic, courtier, AP's early friend. Warburton, William (1689-1779) Bishop of Gloucester; originally AP's anonymous antagonist in early pamphlets, later defender of the Essay of Man, and AP's last major friend; edited AP's works (1751), with commentary, asAP's literary executor. Wycherley, William (1640?-1716) Poet, playwright (The Country Wife), early friend of AP. Principal Places Mentioned Amesbury Town in Wiltshire, 10 miles north of Salisbury; country home of the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry. Bath Fashionable Somerset health resort and spa for polite society; AP visited here frequently in his later years. Bevis Mount 1 mile north of Southampton's city gates; home (now gone) of Lord Peterborough. Binfield, Berkshire 9 miles east of Reading; AP and family lived here at Whitehill House, c. 1700-15. Chiswick, Middlesex 8 miles west of London, home of Lord Burlington, and of AP and family, 1716-19. Cirencester Park Lord Bathurst's house in Oakley Wood, near the Gloucestershire town of the same name. Dawley Farm South-east of Uxbridge, Middlesex, 15 miles west of London; Bolingbroke's residence from 1725.